NBC News reported that company lawyer Noel Francisco told justices Friday that TikTok had First Amendment protections, an argument that both conservative and liberal justices appeared skeptical of.

Friday’s session comes just nine days before the sell-or-ban deadline. TikTok’s lawyer, Noel Francisco, made it clear that the social network will essentially shut down on January 19 unless ...

an attorney for TikTok, Noel Francisco, told the Supreme Court on Friday that he expects that if the law is upheld, the app would “go dark — essentially, the platform shuts down,” when the ...

Noel Francisco, a lawyer representing TikTok and ByteDance, argued before the Supreme Court that supporting the law could allow the US government to censor content it didn’t like in the future.

Noel Francisco argued on behalf of ByteDance and TikTok, saying that "the speech itself — this fear that Americans, even if fully informed, could be persuaded by Chinese misinformation.